RAG guardrails that stop agents leaking or hallucinating in production, mapped to the specific risk each control removes.
RAG Guardrails: Stopping Agents That Leak or Hallucinate in Production
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Data & AI Engineering
Unity Catalog permissions and service principals in plain English
Unity Catalog permissions in plain English: grant to Entra ID groups, reuse each Databricks App’s service principal and mask PII columns.
Bronze to Gold in Practice: Making Fragmented Enterprise Data AI-Ready
A practical walkthrough to make fragmented enterprise data AI ready, from raw sources to a gold layer an agent can safely query.
Databricks Panther and Lakewatch: What Splunk Buyers Should Know
Databricks agreed to acquire the AI SOC platform Panther on 16 June 2026, its third security deal. Here is what that signals for Splunk renewals, and the vendor-neutral lakehouse groundwork worth doing before you pick anyone.
Agentic SIEM Explained: The Lakehouse Shift in Security
An agentic SIEM uses AI agents to detect, triage and investigate threats, not just summarise alerts. Whether those agents help depends on the security data layer underneath them.
SharePoint Excel to Databricks without breaking governance
Move SharePoint and Excel data into Databricks without breaking governance: pick one route, enforce schema contracts, add effective dates.
End-to-End Data Engineering Is Broken: Here’s How Databricks, the Medallion Architecture, and AI Agents Fix It
AI cannot rescue a broken data foundation. End-to-end data engineering — source ingestion, Bronze/Silver/Gold, certified BI, and governed AI agents — is the discipline that turns raw enterprise data into intelligence executives actually trust. The future state isn’t data plumbing. It’s intelligence engineering.
Databricks vs Azure Synapse, and where Microsoft Fabric fits
Compare Databricks, Synapse and Fabric on cost, governance and GenAI readiness, and plan a Synapse to Databricks migration that holds.
A Data Governance Policy Template for a Lakehouse
A copy-ready data governance policy template in nine sections, with clause wording you can paste and the Unity Catalog control and evidence behind every clause.